A two-stage double-bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency differences of New Zealand secondary schools

W Robert J Alexander (), Alfred Haug and Mohammad Jaforullah ()
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W Robert J Alexander: Department of Economics, University of Otago
Mohammad Jaforullah: Department of Economics, University of Otago

No 714, Working Papers from University of Otago, Department of Economics

Abstract: We conduct a two-stage (DEA and regression) analysis of the efficiency of New Zealand secondary schools. Unlike previous applications of two-stage semi-parametric modelling of the school Òproduction processÓ, we use Simar and WilsonÕs double bootstrap procedure, which permits valid inference in the presence of unknown serial correlation in the efficiency scores. We are therefore able to draw robust conclusions about a system that has undergone extensive reforms with respect to ideas high on the educational agenda such as decentralised school management and parental choice. Most importantly, we find that school type affects school efficiency and so too does teacher quality.

Keywords: efficiency; productivity; double boot-strapping; school finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2007-11, Revised 2007-11
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